tc electronic HyperGravity Compressor Reviews

Good value compressor with nice features

Quiet, effective unit, with blend much appreciated. Fast delivery and no problems

Great compressor for studio and live

This compressor is a main stay on my board. Nicely compact and well built. The quality of the switches and knobs give me great confidence in all situations. The TonePrint function is really handy as well as being able to edit your own compression curve. From vintage squash to studio quality it does it all. This pedal also works quite well with acoustic guitar. I personally use this for studio and live work. Great product from TC, definitely would recommend :)

Not sur

I don't like the frequency response on this compressor. It kind of muffles up my sound and doesn't bring out the best in my guitar sound. I've been using it for quite a while, but I wouldn't recommend it. Never seemed to make this sound nice in my guitar chain.

Good compressor

I'll admit that I haven't used a lot of compressor pedals, so feel free to bear that in mind. This pedal is great quality, and as I have found with this TC range in general, is a well designed pedal. Switchable between true and buffered bypass, but on loss of power defaults to true, so you don't lose signal. It comes across as a very well thought out bit of kit.

With the toneprint app on a computer, the range of parameters you can edit is massive. You can almost certainly get any compressor sound you want out of this. I bought it with the aim to have a really transparent compressor that you barely know is on, other than the extra sustain. It definitely achieves this, but it took me a bit of tweaking to get to where I was really happy.

That's basically my only complaint. The default settings could be a bit better I think. They aren't bad, but I don't think they show off the pedal to be as good as it can be. If you like to tinker, then this is probably the only compressor pedal you would ever want

Excellent value, build quality & options!

So many features packed a compact pedal. Sounds great straight out of the box, more so with appropriate tweaking, and if you can't get around to tweaking it just use the Toneprint to directly import a great sound into the pedal. Love the art and simplicity too. Does the job and makes both magnetic and piezo pickups sound gorgeous, especially full acoustically to equal out the range, but is also really useful for extended range guitars to help balance out the low ends when used before distortion. Love it T.C.!

Restarts accidentally

Pros:

- incredible versatile using USB and software (check youtube EytschPi42 DEEP review)

Cons:

- restarts accidentally during playing, very annoying 'cause it produces a loud click into an amp

Decent but there are much better options

I used the HyperGravity pedal in the context of building a pedalboard for live shows with my rock 5-piece band and some professional studio recording. The pedal is well built and sturdy, I had no problems with the hardware.

The reason I chose this compressor over others was because of the controls it offers, they are very good in the sense that you can really dial in the tone you want. But I didn't love this pedal, I actually disliked it because the tone was not very good. Being a professional music producer, I work with a multitude of different software compressors and I understand compression very well and the sound of this pedal was not pleasing to my ears. Even after a lot of fiddling, I was not able to find a GREAT sound, I found some decent, usable ones but nothing that made me feel like my purchase was justified. It's an okay pedal with great features and an okay sound. Nothing to write home about.

Best price-quality compressor

I was looking for a decent compressor but found in this one just the perfect compressor.

Many features and really easy to use. This is a versatile pedal.

And yeah: quite cheap for the quality/features you receive.

Good first compressor

I bought it to use with both guitar and bass and I'm satisfied with how it works on both since it is a good 3-band compressor. The only downside I found is the Toneprint app. I had trouble connecting and editing, both with my computer and phone. After many attempts and different devices, I finally made it work but with a borrowed computer. After being able to connect, it worked well, but now I will always have to borrow a computer to use it properly.

Perfect compressor pedal

Perfect pedal for everything, from vocals to violin. I am definitely buying few more of those in the future. App on your phone makes it a full studio quality multiband compressor.

Great Compressor, value for money

I use this compressor on my electric (Gretsch), acoustic (Larrivee), and bass (Ibanez) guitar. It's transparent, and performs perfect on any use and gender. It doesn't colorize the sound, so some musicians may find this useless but this is is the point for me: I want a compressor, not a pedal that will change my sound. On electric I use it to tight the sound and give all notes over the fingerboard the same volume and feeling, on bass to smooth out the peaks, and on acoustic to keep the sound on the same level when strumming. You can fine-tune the settings (i.e. the frequency of the 3 bands that the compressor will be apply) through the toneprint editor. The ability to mix the dry and compressed signal is perfect for my acoustic guitar.

Pros: Sound quality, build quality, toneprint editor, price.

Cons: I need more toneprint slots to use it on different instruments, some lag on response when you turn the knobs but this is not a dealbraker.

Definitely recommended.

Super versatile pedal compressor

I was looking for an upgrade of my 90'ies Ibanez pedal compressor, that I could also use for my acoustic guitar. The old school pedal was a bit brutal and rough on the edges, being an old fashioned design.

The hyper gravity has a couple of big advantages:

- the blend control, allowing you to mix in the uncompressed signal

- the multiband seting, which works really well on acoustics

- toneprint options to tweak to your heart's desire.

I love this thing, it is NOT leaving my pedal board anymore!

Good

I tried several different compressors before settling on this one. The unit has a blend control which sets the ratio of compressed signal to non-compressed signal allowing one to set up the amount of compression from the unit. Very useful feature. The unit offers a wide variation in output from a simple boost to a full on "squeeze". I was able to find a sretting where the compression works in a very transparent fashion. Highly recommended.

My first compressor pedal

I bought this pedal for my pedalboard, I use it at homestudio and concert as well. This is the perfect choice for me, I like this

pedal. Easy setup, works with my iphone TonePrint app.

Recommended!

Great compressor

Really love this compressor, as usual, great tcelectronic quality. The TonePrint feature is really helpful.

Not too expensive, does exactly what it's supposed to.

Guitar

Excellent choice for anyone looking for a guitar compressor. Small and packed, this pedal provides a vintage compressor, a multi-band compressor for each guitar string and a TonePrint function which can customize it to a big extent. The 4 controls are simple.

Super-versatility in an affordable comp

I am very happy with all my TC Electronic products and this is one of them. It has the modern and the vintage options and the tone print available always at your disposal. Very responsive and very customizable.

Solo Tone Creator (guitar)

Instead of using overdrive or booster pedal, I use this compressor to push my legato technique through "not a hi-gain amp" to achieve clarity and "selection" in solo tone.

Very good compressor, suitable for legato technique.

Extremely versatile compressor pedal

This works not only as compressor but as a EQ pedal too. Especially with tone print modifications you can make it compress and EQ as you wish.

Remember that if your guitar pickups are very noisy (bad wiring, hot vintage specs...) the compressors lift's up this noise as well.

As it is, with my noiseless pickups the pedal is quiet enough even if I read a lot of reviews about it's noise...

Very good compression

This is a very good compression pedal and versatile. I use it in the studio and on stage. On/off button is very good and easy to press.

Pros:

Sound quality, versatility, well made, small, light

Cons:

None